MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
Photographing the inhabitants of the city back in the 40s and 50s, Vivian Cherry was one of the first female street photographers to capture the thronging masses going to and fro the island of Manhattan. Though Cherry passed away on March 4 in her home of Albuquerque at 98, her images of New York City of halcyon days remain iconic.
Laurie Simmons: My work often reflects where I am in my life at the moment. When I first had children I was doing work at the Ventriloquist Museum, Vent Haven, in Kentucky. When I started traveling extensively for the first in my adult life I was doing the tourism pictures.
In another instance of why Facebook should just crawl into the same grave as MySpace, millions of people across the world had trouble accessing Facebook and its sister companies, including Instagram and Whatsapp. Who the hell cares--that one basic white girl from your high school can’t upload a mirror selfie of her in Lululemon yoga pants!
Ken Schles: There’s an inherent risk in the way I’m approaching the subject matter. Trump has energized a lot of people to stand up for their beliefs that wouldn’t have previously. I’d probably count myself among them. I’m definitely risking my bodily self. I’ve been arrested 8 times in the last 14 months.
What made you want to study photography and art? Nick: I didn’t study photography at art college (I wish I had). I only came to photography when I realized that it was the best medium for me to be able to express my feelings about animals, the natural world, and the destruction of both at the hands of humans.
SPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform using underused, atypical and historic New York City exhibition spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market, typically but not exclusively during Armory Arts Week. The eighth annual exhibition will be held from March 5th – March 11th, 2019.
Oliviero: I'm not looking for a consensus. Also, I don't want you to think “controversy.” I've just seen what they think I should be publishing. I work in a totally free situation. A good photographer should be able to show his point of view through images.
From this year’s winner of the Hasselblad Award to the anti-fake news Venice Biennale, here is all you need to know from the past week.
Feminist superheroes have flown over the house of the patriarchy and raised the female flag, creating safe passage for those behind them. International Women’s Day claims independence and power for women, it creates a safe place for those who feel that they don’t have any.
Kyle Meyer is an American artist who uses a variety of materials and techniques. His latest work, created while in Swaziland on a Brandeis University grant, is called Interwoven. It consists of portraits of gay local men clad in women’s headdresses.
White bodies photographed in the nude have long since slid away from being controversial or risqué. They have instead become artistic and tasteful, especially those in the female form. Conversely, brown, male nudes still require justification to be viewed as artwork. The beauty of white bodies and brown bodies are not viewed equally.
From the controversy of this year’s Whitney Biennial, to the alternative for the cancelled VOLTA art fair, this is all you need to know for the ins-and-outs of the art world.
During a recent trip home, I uncovered my Polaroid camera — a treasure which I had apparently relegated to a hidden corner of my childhood bedroom for several years. I brought it back to the city with me with the hazy idea in mind of wallpapering my room with snapshots of friends and family.
Steve: The world is so different now, and losing this world of ice is now our biggest, inevitable, risk. Was this a factor in your selecting the images?
Eric: I've had these images in my life and memory for a long time; more recently in my possession. My father scanned his slides of Antarctica about ten years ago.
Enthusiastically embraced by critics and audiences alike, Free Solo won Best Documentary Feature against five other full-length documentaries nominated for an Oscar this year.The film starts as an intimate, unflinching portrait of what makes the singular Alex Honnold tick and ends as a nail-biter, a suspenseful, ultimately thrilling account.
From the return of Nokia with 5 cameras, to Oscars 2019, to the nominees for World Press Photo 2019, this is the recap of the news that you need to know from this week.
